Greenburgh to reopen massage parlor hearing

Greenburgh officials are looking to shut down a Hartsdale massage parlor, Forest Yin Spa, where an unlicensed masseuse was charged with prostitution.
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The Greenburgh Town Board is weighing a proposal to shut down the Forest Yin Spa, 100 No. Central Ave. in Hartsdale, following a prostitution arrest there in July.(Photo: Jorge Fitz-Gibbon/The Journal News)Buy Photo

The Greenburgh Town Board will take one last look at a proposal to shut down a controversial Hartsdale massage parlor this week.

The board voted last month to reopen a public hearing on the Forest Yin Spa at its next meeting Wednesday to ensure everyone is heard on the issue before a final decision is made on revoking the spa's license.

Residents have been called for Forest Yin, 100 N. Central Park Ave., two doors from a nursery school, to be shut down since a masseuse there was charged with prostitution following an undercover operation by Greenburgh police officers.

Police have shut down more than a half dozen massage parlors since the town passed a massage parlor law in 2015. Town police want Forest Yin to be next in line.

But after residents and representatives of Forest Yin spoke up at the board's last meeting, the town decided to reopen the hearing this week.

"We want to have a clean record," Greenburgh Supervisor Paul Feiner said. "We want to make sure that any additional information that people have, that no one says, 'Oh, you didn't give them an opportunity to comment.'"

The hearing is scheduled for Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at Greenburgh Town Hall, 177 Hillside Ave., Greenburgh.